Temptations came to him, in middle age, tentatively and without insistence, like a neglected butcher-boy who asks for a Christmas box in February for no more hopeful reason than that he didn't get one in December.
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Quotes by Hector Hugh Munro (Saki)
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.
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Whenever a massacre of Armenians is reported from Asia Minor, every one assumes that it has been carried out "under orders" from somewhere or another; no one seems to think that there are people who might like to kill their neighbours now and then.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
The people of Crete unfortunately make more history than they can consume locally.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.
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Posted by: Silvana Stremiz
Women and elephants never forget an injury.
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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
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